Horatio Nelson

Sitterback to top

• Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805), Vice-Admiral and victor of Trafalgar. Sitter associated with 84 portraits.

Artistback to top

• Friedrich Heinrich Füger (1751-1818). Artist of 1 portrait.

This portraitback to top

This is the only known image of Nelson in civilian dress. Both he and his mistress Emma Hamilton sat to Füger shortly after their arrival in Vienna from Naples in 1800, after the victorious Battle of the Nile (1798). By that time, Nelson's fame was quite phenomenal and the couple were followed by thousands wherever they went. Each city they visited held grand celebrations. Prague was illuminated for his forty-second birthday and a special black cape with colourful trimmings invented and named after him.

Linked publicationsback to top

• Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 455
• Walker, Richard, Regency Portraits, 1985, p. 362

Subject/Themeback to top

• Regency War Heroes and Military Martyrs